The Australians have a saying when you are getting a bad deal you are getting fleeced. And that is just how this great Western Australian based member owned business got started. The Capricorn story is something of a legend these days but 38 years ago seven Golden Fleece service station operators met in […]
Capricorn Society Ltd
Capricorn is a member based organisation proudly operating by cooperative principles to primarily support businesses in the automotive industry. This approach allows Members to better manage their businesses by saving time and money and ultimately to increase profits. Members are the owners too and are eligible to receive dividends, if declared. As a major player […]
TIP Friendly Society
TIP Friendly Society (TIP) is an organization that caters to the insurance needs of persons employed in the field of education in Jamaica; with the objective being to improve the economic, social and health status of members, staff and the wider community, by providing thrift and credit facilities, sickness, accident and death benefits.
How to TIP friendly into cooperatives
Not long ago, Chuck Gould, ICA Director-General, told a co-operative symposium in Jamaica: “We need a more balanced and a more sustainable economic model and the co-operative model is a sustainable part of that solution. One member of that very audience has been doing much to prove that the co-operative model is the way forward […]
Alberta Community and Co-operative Association (ACCA)
The ACCA objectives include: To foster a healthy and vibrant co-operative sector, to provide a means for co-operatives to associate and network with other co-operatives, to promote the co-operative model, to support the development of strong Alberta communities through co-operation, to foster the development of community leaders through education, to provide youth education and leadership, […]
(Doing) Real Good from the Ground Up
The art of cooperation is embedded in every molecule of CROPP Cooperative Organic Valley, the U.S.s largest cooperative of organic family farms. It begins on the ground beneath our feet with over 1,700 organic family farmers who belong to and own our cooperative. Because we farm organically, we work responsibly on behalf of all earths […]
Organic Valley
Organic Valley is Americas largest cooperative of organic farmers and one of the nations leading organic brands. Focused on its founding mission of saving family farms through organic farming, Organic Valley produces a variety of organic foods, including organic milk, soy, cheese, butter, spreads, creams, eggs, produce and juice, which are sold in supermarkets, natural […]
Leading Slovakian Engineering
The Fragokov cooperative, one of the largest engineering companies in the Preov region and regularly listed as one of the top 200 best Slovakian companies, was founded in 1949. Originally called the Eastern Slovak Peoples Car Repair Company (Východoslovenské ?udové autodrustvo, abbreviated to VLAD, in Slovak) by the late 1980s the cooperative employed more than […]
Renewable Energy Co-operative
We are a worker owned co-operative specialising in renewable energy solutions for commercial, agricultural, domestic and community projects. As a co-operative we are passionate about helping people making independent decisions about their energy sources and education people about green energy solutions through talks, transition town meetings, activities and community schemes.
School: not just desks and chalkboards
Why do I have to learn math? Why do I have to practice scales? Why do I have to work with her? If you have been a teacher or a parent these are probably questions you have heard. If you have been a student these are probably questions (even if you don’t want to admit […]